From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:49:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org (pentafluge.infradead.org [213.146.154.40]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l5U9nstL025773 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:49:55 -0700 Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:34:13 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [-mm PATCH] ocfs2: ->fallocate() support Message-ID: <20070630093413.GE22354@infradead.org> References: <20070621190143.GC17713@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070621190143.GC17713@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Mark Fasheh Cc: Andrew Morton , Amit Arora , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 12:01:43PM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote: > Plug ocfs2 into the ->fallocate() callback. We only support FA_ALLOCATE for > now - FA_DEALLOCATE will come later. Btw, it seems like ocfs implements the xfs preallocation ioctls. What would people thing about moving those up to work over ->fallocate so they can be used on all filesystems that support preallocation? While the ABI is quite ugly it has a huge userbase because it's the only existing preallocation mechanism on Linux.